Celebrating Giving Day 2026

Giving Day 2026

17/06/26

Bursaries

Community & fundraising

Thank you to everyone who contributed to a fantastic Giving Day 2026. Your support, participation and, of course, donations made for an inspirational day of fundraising for bursaries and a celebration our diverse community.

From an abseiling challenge and autographed England football, to 303 generous donations across the two days, Giving Day 2026 raised an fantastic:

£102,840

Read on to find out about our fantastic abseiling launch, learn more about some of our current and former Beale Award (bursaries) award recipients, and celebrate the overwhelming support from our community.

If you weren't able to contribute and would like to make a donation, there is still time to show your support!

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Abseiling Launch

To launch Giving Day 2026, five of our Senior Leadership team faced their fears as they abseiled off the Art Building!

Silent Auction

We also held a silent auction to help us reach our Giving Day goal and raise as much as possible for the Beale Awards.

As England prepared to take on Croatia in their first FIFA World Cup game of 2026, we launched the bidding for a signed England football, personally autographed by Sir Geoff Hurst in the Princess Hall.

Your Donations

We're delighted to celebrate that we received donations from 304 members of our community.

Gifts have come from a community that spans many countries and ages (from 12 to 96) and includes past and present pupils, current and former parents, staff, and friends of College.

A Global community

We've received donations from all over the world, from the UK, Spain, Germany, Egypt, Norway and Austria, to China, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, Canada and the US.

Challenges completed

We successully completed a range of challenges to unlock additional funds, including parent, Guild, worldwide and total donor challenges.

Across the ages

Gifts for Giving Day 2026 have come from a wide community that spans many ages, from our youngest at 12 to our oldest donor of 96 years old.

Over 300 Donors

So far, a fantastic 304 donors have participated in Giving Day 2026. These span many different people in our community, from current and former parents, pupils and staff, friends and alumnae.

Beale Award Holders

Giving Day 2026 was fundraising for bursaries.

All donations, big or small, help us to create more life-changing opportunities for fearless girls from all backgrounds and strengthen our community - widening the breadth of perspectives, creativity and intellectual curiosity at CLC.

Find out more about some of our current and former Beale Award holder:

Georgia

Class of 2026 and former Beale Award holder

Read Georgia's interview

Erin

Current Sixth Form student and Beale Award holder

Read Erin's blog

Watch the video below to hear from Erin and Georgia, along with alumnae Phoebe, Hannah and Charlotte, about how the Beale Awards impacted them.

Thank you

Finally, another huge thank you to everyone who has participated in Giving Day so far - we couldn't do it without you.

I think the really beautiful thing about the bursary programme is how all-encompassing it is, so that you really do get a full and equal experience to everyone around you.

Georgia, Class of 2026 and former Beale Award holder